The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-09-12
FINANCE AND COMMERCE,
Money 8 Per Cent, New York Ex'
change 1.8 Premium.
1OtfOn Quiet - Mfddifug Cotton,
0 1-I8e-sates To-day $50
Bales.

APPEAL 0YFIcE,
6AruRDAY EVENING, September 10, 1887. :
Money rates are unchanged and
arm at per cent to customers. A New
York telegram states that the imports
OF gold this week amounted to S., 0Sl,-
03C, Of which s2,950,452 came from
Europe and $lSl,l7s from South
America. This statement does not in
clude 81, SS9, 629 which came on the
Ems today, but which goes in next
weeks report. The exports.of specie
for the week were $3O6,3S5, Of which
$265,575 was in silver consigned to
Europe and $40, $40 gold. The imports
Of merchandise for the week were
$6,s4s,OC6, including $685. 40 in dry
goods.
The local cotton market remains
quiet and unchanged. At New Or.
leans middling and middling fair ad-
vsnced 1-16c, with prices up 8 to s
points. The Liverpool market closed
steady with fair demand; prices sd-
vanced l point. New York spots
closed quiet and unchanged; Septem-
Der futures up @ points and the new
crop months steady.
The winners Of Latham, Alexander
4 Goa purse OF $500, for the nearest
estimate on the cotton crop OF 1856
81, are Messrs. Howell 4 Brothers,
Pine Bluff, Ark, their estimate being
6,5o5, 900 bales, only 81 short Of the
actual amount. Messrs. NJ. B. Luton
4 O.. aye the closest to the crop Of the
Memphis estimates for the same purse,
their figures being $4,000 bales.
The Department Of Agriculture re-
port Of the cotton crop August condi-
tons, az compared with'ihe July, 1887,
averages, shoT va that North Carolins
has lost 7 points, South Carolina o,
Georgia 10, Florida s. Alabama II,
Mississippi IL, Louisiana 9, Texas 10.
Arkansas IA and Tennessee IL.
The extent Of the rice crop and its
conditions, says the New York Bal.
letin, Is still e matter OF uncertainty,
and amid the conflicting statements
exiant interested parties endeayor TO
work the course Of afAirs 10 their adj
vantage. Thus far the bulls have
scored the greatest success, as the
weight Of evidence seems to point to
asbortsge at least. though little Oct
ter information will be required TO
approximate the estimate to some
thing like positive figure. Louisiana
claims 25 TO 80 per cent. of In some
CAGES, North Carolina 20 to 25 per cent.
reduction, aud South Carolina no
essential change, and on the Atlantic
coas. the difference is matter Of re-.
dueed acreage aud not through dam
age 10 crop, which IL said to promise
the most excellent showing on quality.
IMPORTS.
Forty-two brls apples, 100 sks bran,
200 rolls bagging, l22 pkss bacon, l02
pkgs boots and shoes, 5000 bu corn,
300 pkgs cheese, 10 rks coffee, % skis
cotton eeed. car cotton eeed, 100 brls
cement. OIL pkgs dry goods, 80 pigs
eggs, 800 brIs A)ur, 4l6 bales hay, 72l
pkgs lard, $1,000 feet lumber, al
pkgs liquofe, 800 brls lime, 80 brls
meal, 10 b,ls molassse, 900 kegs nails,
1900 bu Gate, 10 brls onions, IA br!s
potatoes, 8 cara pork sides, 40 pkge
RTE, l66 brls sugar, 81 pkgs tobacco
and 600 bu wheat.
ELUyAToR REPORTS.
The following shows the amount Of
grain received, Withdrawn and In store
by resu ar elevators, ~ reported TO
the Merchants Exchange today
Wheat-In store, 5l,2il bushele.
Corn-Rsoeived, 2745 bushels; with.
drawn, 227s bushels: la store, 92ss
bushels. 0sts-Rsreiyed, $50 bdsh.
els; Withdrawn, 22s5 bushels; In tore,